huh? Can you point to existing technology for this analyzer? Seems to me like it would require an oracle.
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Michael Schlenker <schl...@uni-oldenburg.de> wrote: > > Am 08.03.2010 um 18:46 schrieb Kelly Linden: > >> We are not out to write a new malloc for mono. What we have is a system >> that throws an exception when the memory used by the script hits a certain >> threshold (64k currently). This exception is caught so we can "crash" the >> script. The future small scripts and big scripts projects will add new >> functions to set and get this threshold value, allowing scripters to >> effectively control how much memory is reserved for their script. We will >> continue to use mono's default memory management within the reserved memory >> thresholds. It is a much simpler problem to solve. >> > While your at it, how about a static analyzer for mono/LSL that determines > guaranteed lowest memory consumption for a script and sets the threshold > there. > > That would have the benefit of easing scripters work by providing useful > defaults for all the easy cases without them having to do anything at all. > > The scheme should only break down if the mono GC behaves weird. In that case > scripters have a huge problem anyway as they cannot set any threshold without > being crashed at random by a lazy GC. > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges > _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
